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by matt-p 1y ago
Reduce latency for what? I can't think of how, unless of course you ran a laser down to starlink or some other completely impractical plan.
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by matt-p 1y ago
It's already being done all over the place. It's not particularly damaging compared to the alternatives.
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by matt-p 1y ago
Genuinely most "AI" DCs are spending less than 9KW on cooling for every 100KW of servers. If you were that bothered about getting that to zero, you could literally sink them into the ocean, build a heat network so the town can tak
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by matt-p 1y ago
It's totally mad and impractical; I love it!
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by matt-p 1y ago
That's excellent pricing from a structural perspective.
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by matt-p 1y ago
AI data centres rarely actually need to resort to using water because they're using DTC and not air cooling, so we're looking at cooling 60 degree Celsius water down to ~40 which you can do compressorless with dry coolers alone. I
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by matt-p 1y ago
I use neon quite a bit, profiling seems to show ~600-980ms of extra latency. This is in the AWS London region, on postgres 15/16. Regardless if I've got a website that's used a couple of times a hour every hour then the pract
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by matt-p 1y ago
Neon is a interesting product and they've got some great Postgres engineers. Having said that 1 Second cold starts are still quite painful for a website/web app. I hope the $19 plans are there to stay - but I somewhat doubt it.
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by matt-p 1y ago
So how should the maintainers eat? Or there should be none? Should they be Amazon employees?
430.
by matt-p 1y ago
"The history of Stanford Research Park" Would mean much very little/nothing to most people, so I don't really see this as click bait.
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by matt-p 1y ago
Because it lands on the desk of the head of HR, assistant to the COO, or MDs desk and in all honesty there not going to spend more than half an hour on it - so you've got 30 mins / number of questions.
432.
by matt-p 1y ago
In my experience the pain of false positives required to outweigh the "WAF is best practice" is just very very heigh. Most big businesses would rather lose/frustrate a small percentage of customers, to be "safe".
433.
by matt-p 2y ago
Maybe on a hyper local basis, but beware there will be negatives with flushing them out too. On a national scale I'm afraid it's just not statistically significant.
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by matt-p 2y ago
Yes, but isn't yield due to scarcity? For example right now there's more demand than supply for a 2 bed house for £2000pcm, but if we doubled the supply then there'd be competition and we'd end up at a much lower price?
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by matt-p 2y ago
up to a certain point, yes, asset holders do benefit from workers spending 50% of post tax income on housing. It is now restricting GDP growth, however - so long term it's not in many peoples interest.
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by matt-p 2y ago
reductionist in this case is not a bad thing. We need a major change to fix this situation and doing some little tweaks like increasing taxes on second homes or holiday homes does not actually fix this (we already tax those specific cases,
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by matt-p 2y ago
I have not researched this but someone I know at one of the big house-builders pegged the cost of building a 3 bed at around £35-40,000, so in the south east land with PP is 10X more valuable than what's sat on it. "Farm" lan
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by matt-p 2y ago
arguably asset price is built on scarcity vs demand everything else is all second order really.
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by matt-p 2y ago
Yes, it's seriously unhealthy to have most of peoples individual wealth tied up in the fact that there's constrained property supply. If we just built a bunch more housing (or removed net immigration) such that house prices droppe
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by matt-p 2y ago
I mean maybe, but the product will still be made in china.
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by matt-p 2y ago
it's a particular issue with PE, who aren't really doing it for strategic reasons, but really are just there to make money.
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by matt-p 2y ago
I don't usually see minimums below 25K, which is fine and sensible. You really need some kind of a proxy to aggregate anything less than that in practice - thinks like crowdcube or similar. Can you imagine having to draw up paperwork j
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by matt-p 2y ago
My point still stands even if it's equity. PE/corp buyers may not care about buying out the very small minority stock holders, that is the point I 'm making. Lets say you've got Founder A 25% - Voting, Founder B 25% - Vo
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by matt-p 2y ago
There's also just the case that a buyer is happy buying say 88% of the company and having 12% (usually non-voting) shares lie with employees/former employees. Stock options are only really, truly worth anything if they IPO.
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by matt-p 2y ago
How do we know that isn't enforced here too?
446.
by matt-p 2y ago
I did find that so surprising that it almost doesn't feel right. Hard to see why they'd bother making two different SKUs in two different places if the cost delta is only $100 they'd surely be better off shifting all the volu
447.
by matt-p 2y ago
Apologies, the implication is fuzzy there. I am thinking from the perspective of a multinational like for example apple who would be both exporter and importer. FOB shipping is typically only for smaller businesses.
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by matt-p 2y ago
Realistically you'd end up chosing between finding the product from another country, trans-shipping or just being out of stock until they come down wouldn't you? Is someone buying a $100 pair of shoes really going to pay $240?
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by matt-p 2y ago
I think it should be $10-$24.50 not $10-14.50 So retail price goes from $20 to $50-ish.
450.
by matt-p 2y ago
Almost impossible to run a business when tariffs could move +/- 20% per day (this is the second day in a row). If I was shipping stuff to the US from china I would just not until this is resolved. I wonder if therefore instead of pri

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